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Interview training for the ERC 2025 Synergy Grant

The Swedish Research Council is hosting a webinar for ERC Synergy Grant candidates who have reached step 3 of the evaluation process, offering advice and inspiration for the interview. Research support staff at Swedish universities are also welcome.

Date

19 August 2025

Time

12 August, 13.00–14.30 and 19 August, 11.00–12.00

Place

Digital meeting on Zoom

Registration

Registration is open until 11 August and 18 August

Why interview training?

The Swedish Research Council supports researchers who apply for grants from the European Research Council, ERC, in various ways. This webinar aims to prepare candidates with Swedish universities as host institutions for the interview with the ERC panel. The candidates will have the opportunity to meet and ask questions to previous ERC SyG recipients.

12 August, 13.00–14.30

Invited researcher that share ERC SyG experiences:

  • Stephan Wenkel, Umeå university, ERC SyG awardee 2024 with the project RESYDE: Re-engineering symmetry breaking in development and evolution
  • Joel Speerstra, University of Gothenburg, ERC SyG awardee 2024 with the project REMAKE: Reconstructing Embodied Musical knowledge At the Keyboard
  • Stephanie Robert, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences ERC SyG awardee 2024 with the project STARMORPH: Unravelling Spatiotemporal Auxin Intracellular Redistribution for Morphogenesis
  • Kimberly Dick Thelander, Lund University, SyG 2022 Panel experiences (Physical Sciences and Engineering)

19 August, 11.00–12.00

Invited researcher that share ERC SyG experiences:

  • Anna Dimberg och Magnus Essand, Uppsala universitet, ERC SyG awardees 2024 with the project VASC-IMMUNE: Targeting the vascularimmune interface to induce anti-tumor immunity (Life Sciences)

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